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THE 


CRIMES  of  PREACHERS 


IN  THE 


United  States  and  Canada 

PROM     MAY,   1876,   TO    MAY,    1883. 


•BCOND    BDITION. 


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FROM     MAY,   1870,   TO    MAY,    l88a 


SCGOSTD    BDITION. 


TRANSLATED  OUT    OF    THE    OBIGINAL    NEWSPIPERS,  AND  WITH 
PBEVIOUB  TRANSLATIONS  DIUOENTLV  OOM- 
PABBD    AND   BEVISED. 


BY  M.  E.  BILLINGS. 

AUTHOR     OF    "PBEVENTION    OF     CRIME."  efC,    "  UNBOLT 
BIBLE.  HOLY    MEN    AND  WOMEN   OF    THE 

BIBLE,"  ••  HOLT  CROSS,"  AND  MANX 
OTHEB     LIBERAL     WORKS. 


"By  their  fruits  shaU  ye  know  them  I    Do  men  gather  grapes  of 
thorns,  or  figs  of  thistles  ?" 


ISSUED    YEARLY. 


NEW'  YORK: 

D.  M.  BENNETT,  141  EIGHTH  STBEET, 

1882.    ^ 


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PREFACE     BY    THE    AUTHOR    TO     FIRST 

EDITION.. 

So  long  as  fear  rules  the  heart ;  so  long  as  supersti- 
tion controls  men's  actions;  so  long  as  imagination 
creates  a  god  of  horror  who  ruless  witii  despotic  tyr- 
anny; so  long  as  ignorance  can  be  made  to  believe 
that  the  preacher  or  priest  is  in  some  way  a  go-between 
or  agent  between  man  and  tiie  powers  in  the  clouds, 
that  he  is  a  sky  pilot,  directly  commissioned  by  deity 
to  attend  to  god's  affairs  on  earth ;  and  that  the  priest's 
person  and  office  are  sacred ;  just  so  long  and  no  longer 
will  such  a  useless  class  of  men  be  possible  as  the 
modern  priesthood. 

If,  then,  it  is  made  to  appear  that  the  preachers  as  a 
class  are  more  criminal  than  any  other  class  of  people; 
that  they  are  so  without  the  excuse  of  want  or  igno- 
rance; without  reason  other  than  because  of  their  lasy 
lives  and  false  creeds;  then  their  dupes  cannc  '.am 
that  fact  too  soon. 

These  data  are  drawn  almost  entirely  from  the  re- 
port as  the  same  was  published  in  some  newspaper, 
the  article  having  been  clipped  out  and  preserved  in  a 
scrap-book  duly  indexed.  The  author  will  be  grate- 
ful to  anyone  who  will  cut  out  and  send  him  any  such, 
sending  name  of  paper  and  date,  as  this  interesting 
record  will  be  continued,  unless  Anthony  Comstock 
shall  prohibit  it  as  "obscene." 
Waverly.  Iowa. 


PEEFACE    BY    THE    AUTHOR    TO    SECOND 

EDITION. 

In  issuing  the  first  editioa  of  this  work,  in  1881,  it 
was  announced  that  it  would  be  a  "continued  love 
story ;"  and  friends  were  invited  to  send  the  author 
clippings  from  newspapers,  giving  date  and  name 
of  paper.  Many  good  friends  have  done  so,  and  the 
result  shows  that  the  author  was  correct  in  estimating 
that  not  one-half  of  the  offenses  charged  against  the 
clergy  had  been  seen  by  himself. 

Since  publishing  the  first  edition  a  flood  of  vituper- 
ation, slander,  and  falsehood  has  been  poured  upon  the 
luckless  wight  who  dared  to  publish  such  an  exposd 
A  few  have  attempted  to  deny  the  charges  against  the 
reverend  dead-beats,  and  in  each  instance  have  failed. 
From  all  parts  of  the  country  the  author  has  been  in- 
formed that  the  charges  preferred  were  correct  All 
over  the  land,  from  Maine  to  Texas,  from  Oregon  to 
Louisiana,  the  pr  t  has  noticed  the  work,  either  criti- 
cising it  in  a  friendly  or  unfriendly  spirit  The  Liberal 
press  has  universally  commended  the  work,  and  as- 
sisted in  circulating  it,  and  has  the  earnest  thanks  of 
the  author. 

The  necessity  for  such  a  work  becomes  apparent 
when  looking  over  the  frightful  list  added  during  the 

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lains  should  be  published  send  the  author  papers  con- 
taining such  items.     This  "  Labor  of  Love  "  will  be 


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PREFACE. 


issued  yearly  so  lont;  as  priestcraft  lives  a  life  of 
crime,  or  until  the  author  can  write  no  longer. 
Waverly,  Iowa,  June,  1882. 


THE  TEN   PARSONS. 


"  TtiN  little  preachcra  preaching  love  divine, 
One  kissed  servant  girl,  llien  tliero  were  9. 
Nine  little  preachers  preaching  sinners'  fate, 
One  got  drunk,  then  there  were  8. 
Eight  little  preachers  showing  path  to  Inaven, 
One  seduced  a  brother's  wife,  then  there  were  7. 
Seven  little  preachers  exposing  Satan's   ricks, 
One  beat  Ins  patient  wife,  then  there  were  6. 
Six  little  preachers  preaching  Christ  alive, 
One  debauched  a  little  girl,  then  there  were  5. 
Five  little  preachers  peaching  '  sin  no  more,' 
One  raped  a  'sister,'  then  there  were  4. 
Four  little  preachers,  pure  as  tljey  could  be. 
One  raped  an  eightyear-old,  then  there  were  3, 
Three  little* preachers,  pity  so  few. 
One  murdered  his  paramour,  then  there  were  2. 
Two  little  preachers  following  the  son. 
One  whipped  his  child  to  death,  then  there  was  1. 
One  little  preacher  in  ihc  fold  alone, 
He  committed  suicide,  then  there  were  none." 


CRIMES    OF   PREACHERS. 


Having  met  an  article  in  the  Cincinnati  Ckmmerdal, 
giving  the  names,  places  of  residence,  and  facta  consti- 
tuting the  crimes  committed  by  preachers  in  the 
•United  States,  giving  forty  instances,  and  entuled, 
"Preachers'  Pranks,"  I  thought  it  might  be  well  to 
clip  from  newspapers  such  accounts  for  a  time,  and 

record  the  result. 

The  lists  were  opened  May,  1876,  and  closed  for 

first  edition  May,  1881. 

If  I  was  astonished  it  the  fearful  list  of  forty  given 
by  the  Cmtmercial,  that  attonishmeut  paled  into  insig- 
nificance when  I  had  prepared  the  following  array  of 
"  preachers'  crimes."  It  seems  impossible  that  such  a 
record  could  be  compiled  with  the  meager  means  at 

hand.  j.       . 

These  data  have  been  the  result  of  the  reading  by 
the  author,  of  four  newspapers,  and  the  casual  reading 
of  seven  others.  These  papers  are  published  in  the 
states  of  Massachusetts,  New  York,  Ohio,  Indiana,  Illi- 
nois, Iowa,  and  Missouri.  None  has  been  from  the 
Southern  statos,  none  from  the  Pacific  states. 

rphe  authov  has  roaaon  to  believe  that  he  has  not 
collected  more  than  one-half  of  the  instances  pub- 
lished, no  particular  paias  having  been  taken. 


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CRIMES  or   PREACHERS. 


It  has  been  customary  to  drop  the  first  names  of 
men  who  have  "taken  holy  orders;"  consequeatly 
many  a  pious  villain  is  recorded  as  Eev.  Smith  or 
Rev.  Jones.  In  some  cases  the  place  was  not  fully 
given  where  "the  crime  was  committed.  In  some  in- 
stances the  offense  is  given  the  laconic  name  applied 
by  the  ecclesiastical  court  which  tried  the  criminal,  as 
"immoral  conduct,"  "lascivious  conduct,"  etc. ;  names 
probably  given  to  hide  the  Crossness  of  the  offense, 
and  to  screen  the  reverend  scoundrel  in  the  interest  of 
Christ's  church. 

The  author  has  besides  a  long  list  of  offenses  com- 
mitted by  these  reverend  "  bilks,"  where  the  name  is 
entirely  suppressed,  as  is  supposed,  out  of  respect  for 
his  "sacred  calling." 

The  denomination  was  not  given  in  many  instances 
to  which  the  "pious  soul"  belonged,  consequently 
this  record  will  hardly  do  to  rely  upon  to  enable  the 
reader  to  ascertain  what  branch  of  "the  church  of 
God  "  has  shown  the  most  efficiency  in  pastoral  crimi- 
nality. 

Letters  will  be  found  placed  after  a  name,  as  P.  E. 
for  presiding  elder,  Ev.  for  Evangelist;  for  instance: 
Carhart,  Rev.  J.  W.,  P.  E.,  and  Bayliss,  Rev.  E  L 
Ev.  The  D.D.,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  and  other  addenda 
purchased  of  those  institutions  called  colleges  and 
theological  seminaries— which  are  established  and 
maintained  for  the  purpose  of  preventing  men  from 
being  educated— have  not  been  preserved  with  any 
great  care.    If  any  reverend  gentleman  feels  aggrieved 

bv  the  omisiflion   if  hm  toiII   aonri   ♦/%  fU^  -,..i.i ^\. . 

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confined,  to  the  effect  that  he  is  entitled  to  such  a  dis- 
tinction,  the  same  shall  be  added  in  the  next  edition 
of  "Crimes  of  Preachers." 

If  any  have  been  overlooked,  and  left  out  of  this 
illustrious  category,"  and  desire  the  distinction  of 
having  their  names  made  famous,  they  will  please  for- 
ward the  facts,  certified  by  some  responsible  person 
to  the  author,  and  they  shall  not  go  awav  hungry.      ' 

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51 


EECAPITULATIOK 


This  shows  the  following  result,  as  the  offenses  have 
been  charged  against  the  clergy,  and  published,  and 
the  printed  report  preseryed  by  the  author,  who,  of 
course,  cannot  vouch  for  the  truth  of  the  newspaper 
statements : 


Abortion, 4 

Adultery 2O6 

Assault — intent  to  murder. .  8 
— ^intent  to  do  great 

bodily  harm 1 

— intent   to    commit 

rape 1 

— and  battery 10 

Attempted   ^:-Iopement    with 

women 1 

Attempt  to  seduce  women . .  3 

Abusive  language 2 

Attempted  bigamy 5 

Arson  in  burning  houses 4 

Bastardy 23 

Beating  wife 10 

Bigamy 28 

Breach  of  prociiso  of  mar- 
riage    2 

Buggery 3 

Breach  of  hospitality 5 

Breach  of  trust 2 

Compounding  felony 3 

Compelling  to  marry i 

Cruelty  to  animals l 

Cheating 25 

Deserting  wife  and  children.  2fi 

"  Dishonesty  " 1 

"  Deceit " 1 

''Debauchery" 2 


"  Died  in  a  brothel " ji 

Drunkenness 29 

Dueling 1 

Elopement  with  women, ...  17 

Embezzlement 26 

Escape  from  prison 2 

False  personation ^  .  1 

"Falsehood" .,  3 

Fighting >j 

Forgery 22 

Fornication 7 

Fraudulent  divorce i 

£.audulent  bankruptcy 1 

Getting  child  drunk 1 

Gambling 2 

Gross  fraud 4 

"  Gross  Immorality  " 3 

"  His  tenets  were  those  of 

the  last  female  he  met " . .  l 

"  Horse  racing  " 1 

Illicit  distilling 2 

Illegal  marrying 2 

Immoral  conduct 5 

Improper  conduct 1 

Immoralities 1 

Indecent   familiarities    with 

Insulting  personalities 2 

Inhuman  cruelty  to  wife  and 

children 17 


52 


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Immoral  assault  on  women 

and  girls 29 

Insulting  ladies 26 

Incest 6 

Kissing  servant  girl  for  -'her 

spiritual  welfare"  2 

Keeping  gambling  house. ...  ] 

Lascivious   conduct 1 

jLarceny 31 

Literary  piracy l 

Lewdness 1 

Lechery 1 

Lying 12 

Malicious  mischief. 1  ; 

Malicious  trespass l 

Miscegenat'nwithc'rdwomaa      1 

Murder— generally 8  1 

— of  wi.''e 4  >•     14 

— of  hia  child.  , .  2  j 

Nuisance ] 

Obscene  literature — publish- 
ing   -. 1 

Obscene  Kterature — sending 

through  mails 1 

Obtaining  money  under  false 

pretenses 10 

Perjury 7 

Poisoning  starving  children . .       1 

Profanity 3 

Quarreling 7 

Robbery 2 

Rape  in  geaoral 5)   . 

on  girl-,  under  16.  .6  >■      18 
on  girls  under  12.  .7  ) 


Riot 4 

Robbing  Mails \ 

Recklessness *.'.*.'.  1 

"  Resigned    under    charges* 

less  said  the  better " i 

Swindling 14 

Seduction  generally gi  ) 

girls  under  15, 12  )  ^"^ 

Slaveholder,  a  missionary. .  I 

Starving  children 2 

Subornation  of  perjury 1 

Suicide w 

Slander 7 

Sodomy 4 

Scandalous  conduct 1 

Too  susceptible 1 

Too  free  with  the  sisters. ...  \ 

Unchaste  conduct i 

Unministerial  conduct 2 

Unchristian  conduct li 

Unbecoming  conduct. ...,.,  i 

Unnamed  crime 3 

Unjust  confinement  of  wife 

in  insane  asylum 1 

"Very  uncourteous  conduct..  1 

Vulgarity 2 

Vile,   indecent,   and  profane 

language 1 

Wanton  conduct 1 

"Whipped  his  3-year-old  boy 

to  death j 

Total  crimes  committed  from 
May,  1876  to  May,  1881. .  917 


Of  these  456  have  been  against  women  in  a  sexual 
way,  and  81  against  women  in  other  ways,  or  644 
against  women  especially. 

Of  this  list  of  477  criminal  preachers,  the  denomina- 
tion of  but  208  has  been  preserved,  leaving  268  not 
credited  to  any  denomination.  Of  the  208  who  are 
credited  to  denominations,  the  Methodists  have  72* 
the  Baptists,  42;  the  Presbyterians,  22,  the  Catho- 

1I^«       10.     4.1.-      r\ i! I'^i^         1.^         .1  ^. 

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England,   10 ;   the  Campbellites,   6 ;  the  Lutherans, 


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ISbS,    J, 

This  8how3  the  following  percentage  in  crime  ac- 
cording  to  denomination,  viz. ; 

about  one  criminal  iu  every 


Methodists, 
Baptists, 
Presbyterians, 
Catholics, 

Congregationalists, 

Luherans, 
"•rotes  tant  Episcopals 
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Methodists,     about  30  per  cent. 

Baptists,  20 

Presbyterians,  lo 

Catholic,  9 

Congregationalists,  G 

Lutheran,  q 

Episcopalians,  5 


Campbellite*,    about  3  per  cent. 
Adventists,  3 

United  Brethren,        I.4 
Hebrew,  i 

Drunkards,  .5 

Universalists,  ,'5 


By  this  ratio  of  the  917  crimes  committed,  as  shown 
by  the  above  list,  the  different  denominations  have 
been  represented  by  their  reverend  criminals  as  fol 
lows : 


Methodist,  275 

Baptist,  183 

Presbjrterian,  91 

Caiholic,  g2 

Congregationalist,  55 

Luthern,  55 
Protestant  Episcopal,     45 


Christian, 

Adventist, 

United  Brethren, 

Hebrew, 

Drunkard, 

UniverijaliBt, 


27 
27 
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4 


Can  it  be  possible  that  the  most  orthodox  are  the 
most  criminal,  and  vice  versa  f    Are  men  nearer  pure 


54 


CRIMES  OF  PREACHERS. 


as  regards  crime  the  further  they  get  from  the  ortho- 
dox belief  ?    It  seems  so.    Of  this  list  of  crmes,  there 
are  670  felonies.     Of  the  definitions  or  distinctive 
names  given  to  the  various  offenses  83   are  names 
given  by  ^he  several  church  courts  where  the  reverend 
scoundrel  was  tried,  perhaps  with  a  view  to  hide  the 
real  offense,   of  course  in  the  interests  of  religion,  t 
There  were  a  great  number  of  these,  but  by  diligent 
inquiry  the  compiler  has  been  able  to  ascertain  gener- 
ally that   "unchaste  conduct"   meant  a  gross  and 
beastly  assault  by  the  "  divine  messenger  "  upon  and 
against  a  lady's  chastity;  and  that   " unministerial 
conduct"  meant  either  adultery,  rape  or  seduction 
committed  against  some  susceptible  sister  who  had 
confided  in   the   lecherous    "sky-pilot."    Whenever 
the  true  state  of  facts  were  ascertained,  the  crime  was 
set  down  by  its  right  name. 

The  author  has  a  large  list  of  crimes,  published 
within  the  last  five  years,  committed  by  these  rev- 
erend gentry,  where  the  name  of  the  reverend  is  not 
given.  Could  the  name  be  ascertained,  the  above 
ist  would  be  largely  increased.  It  is  presumed  the 
names  were  suppressed  out  of  respect  to  the  "  sacred 
ofl&ce  "  of  the  clerical  scoundrels. 

These  data  are  almost  entirely  taken  from  a  belt  of 
the  United  States  between  Canada  and  North  Caro- 
lina; almost  all  from  Canada  to  Maryland,  and  from 
the  Atlantic  to  the  Western  plains — that  is,  from  the 
great  "  intellectual  belt "  of  the  nation,  where  most  of 
the  great  secular  and  religious  journals  are  published, ' 

.activity  and  of  the  greatest  wealth.     This  "  belt"  com- 


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65 


prises  not  one-fourth  of  our  area  and  not  ^ne-half  of 
our  population. 

There  are  in  the  United  States  about  seventy  thou- 
sand priests  and  preachers ;  these  data  are  drawn  from 
about  thirty  five  thousand. 

It  is  safe  to  say  that  not  one-half  of  the  published  ; 
accounts  of  preachers'  crimes  have  been  seen  and  the  ' 
account  preserved  by  the  author. 

Eminent  writers  on  crime  estimate  that  but  one 
crime  out  of  sixteen  is  detected  and  traced  to  the 
criminal.  There  is  no  probability  that  half  of  those 
which  are  ascertained  are  ever  published,  even  when 
there  is  no  superstitious  excuse  for  keeping  it  from  the 
public. 

All  these  suggestions  then  assist  the  reader  at  arriv- 
ing at  a  correct  estimate  as  to  the  amount  of  crimi- 
nality which  exists  among  our  "guides  to  holinesa" 
For  instance,  if  36,000  preachers  in  the  "  intellectual 
belt "  of  the  United  States  commit  917  crimes  in  five 
years,  70,000  preachers  in  the  whole  United  States 
commit  1,834  crimes ;  if  the  author  has  collected  but 
one-half  of  the  number  published,  then  70,000  preach- 
ers have  committed  8,668  in  five  years ;  if  but  one 
crime  out  of  sixteen  is  traced  to  the  criminal,  then  the 
70,000  preachers  have  committed  29,344  in  the  United 
States  in  the  last  five  years ;  and  even  that  list  must 
be  again  doubled  if  but  one-half  of  the  instances  of 
discovered  crime  arc  published. 

Let  any  one  bring  his  own  knowledge  of  circum- 
stances to  bear  upon  this  subject  Could  the  moit 
careful  research  discover  and  compile  more  than  a 
moiety  of  the  crime  committed  ?  *0f  the  crime  com- 


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mitted  m  ^ur  great  cities,  how  much  sees  the  public 
prints  ?  Of  the  drunkenness  and  debauchery  so  openly 
and  comnionly  committed  in  one  large  city,  how  much 
18  published?  And  you  must  recollect  that  the 
preacher  hides  his  crimes  carefully,  and  his  compeers 
and  parishioners  assist  him  to  conceal  it;  while  the 
mght-brawler,  petty  thief,  and  drunken  wretch  are  un- 
der  police  surveillance. 

Is  there  not  food  for  thought  here  ?    Is  it  not  time 
the  eye  of  the  legislator,  the  magistrate,  the  police- 
man, the  detective,  the  parent,  the  public,  was  turned 
toward  this  cesspool  of  pollution  ?    Is  it  not  time  the 
journalist  published  his  note  of  warning  ?    Is  it  not 
time  to  investigate  without  suoerstition,  without  fear 
without  favor,  and  expose  and  punish  without  mercy 
the  men,  who,  having  no  excuse  of  want,  of  friendli- 
ness,  of  homelessness,  of  want  of  confidence    who 
assume  to  be  the  very  elite  of  society  and  the  very  elect 
of  (iod,  commit  more  crime  as  a  class  than  ten  times 
their  number  in  any  other  class  of  society,  than  even 
the  most  poverty-stricken,  famished,  houseless,  home- 
less, friendless,  ignorant,  degraded,  imbecile  or  idiotic 
class  of  the  human  family  ? 

The  commission  of  crime  depends  -first,  upon  the 
criminal  desire  of  the  felon ;  second,  upon  the  incen- 
tive :  third,  upon  the  opportunity  to  commit  the 
crime. 

^  As  to  the  first,  the  foregoing  record  shows  that  the 
desue  to  commit  crime  is  greater  in  this  class  of  per- 
sons  than  in  any  other.  With  a  full  knowledge  of 
our  civil,  criminal,  and  moral  cede  these  gentry  know, 
mgiy,  wickedly,  and  wilfully  commit  more  crime  than 


OBIMBS  OF  PREACHERa 


57 


ten  times  thirty  their  number  in  any  other  class  of 
peopb.  Nor  can  the  plea  that  the  crime  was  the  re- 
sult of  ignorance  be  interposed  with  them,  as  it  can 
be  in  nearly  one-half  of  the  cases  where  crime  is  com- 
mitted  by  the  illiterate  and  foolish.  Then  the  fact 
that  of  these  917  crimes  committed  by  these  "minis- 
ters of  God,"  637  have  been  committed  against  wo- 
men, 456  against  the  morality,  chastity,  and  decency 
of  women,  certainly  evinces  a  criminal  desire  among 
these  85,000  "holy  men"  unparalleled  in  any  other 
class  of  men. 

Second— as  to  the  incentive,   our  theory  is  thii: 
Among  the  illiterate,  ignorant,  and  semi-idiotic  classes 
there  is  an  almost  entire  belief  in  the  gods,  devils,  sa- 
vioni,  redeemers,  and   saints  which    the  priesthood 
hav(5  invented,  and  in  their  heaven  and  hell,  offered  as 
a  bribe  and  terror  to  the  evil-doer.     Although  these 
bribes  and  terrors  do  not  in  the  main  elevate  and  en- 
noble mankind,  yet  to  some  extent  they  have  re- 
strained crime  in  the  unlettered  and  imbecile  classes, 
through  superstitious  fear.     On  the  other  hand,  the 
"  divine  teachers  "  of  these  dogmas  generally  have  no 
belief  therein ;  and  being  accustomed  to  obtaining  fat 
livings,  gorgeous  attire,  lives  of  ease  and  indolence, 
,and  unmerited  confidence  and  adulation  from  their 
dupes,  it  becomes  like  second  nature  to  them  to  gratify 
every  lust,  desire,  passion,  prejudice,  hate,  covetous- 
n3ss,  and  ambition.     Generally,  well  knowing  that  the 
creeds  they  teach  are  false,  they  come  to  look  upon  all ' 
legal  and  moral  restraint  as  an  abridgement  of  their 
rights,  and  upon  all  morality  and  virtue  as  a  sham. 
Of  course  theie  are  those  among  them  who  have 


58 


?%    CRIMES  OF   PRBAOHBBS. 


learned  but  little  of  anything,  and  that  little  only 
what  would  confirm  their  superstitious    feara    and 
hopei,  who  have  never  allowed  themselves  to  investi- 
gata  the  truth,  and  who  have  given  a  blind,  unreason- 
ing adherence  to  the  doctrines  jf  salvation  through 
the  atonement.     These  fii4hly  believe  that  they  can 
escape  the  just  reward  of  their  evil  deeds  by  means  of 
that  "scapegoat ;"  can  avoid  the  penalty  for  crime  and 
again  become  "pure"  througi.  the  great «' bankrupt 
court"  of  "remission  of  sins."     This  branch  of  the 
tribe  of  "  sky-pilots  "  are  even  more  dangerous  than 
the  hypocritical  ones,     Onco  fully  convince  a  man 
that  he  can  by  a  "death-bed  repentance  "  "  shove  by 
justice  "  and  in  nine  cases  out  of  ten  he  will  commit 
any  crime  as  fearlessly  as  does  the  wild  Malay,  who 
rushes  amuck  through  the  streets  with  his  gleaming 
knife  cutting  down  his  fellows  on  every  hand  until  he 
too  is  struck  down,  firmly  believing  that  when  he  is 
killed  his  soul  will  at  once  ascend  to  paradise.     Ac- 
cordingly, the  honest  divine  falls  into  temptation  and 
gets  up  besmirched  with  crime ;  at  once  falls  upon  his 
knees,    receives  the  holy   "ilnction"  and    gets    up 
"washed  white  as  snow." 

Third— as  to  the  opportunity  to  commit  crime,  the 
"  servant  of  God  "  has  much  the  advantage  of  the  serv- 
ant of  toil.  He  is  to  some  extent  entrusted  with 
money  because  of  his  "  holy  orders."  He  is  generally 
tolerated  everywhere  because  of  his  "sanctity."  He 
becomes  the  instructor  of  youth  by  virtue  of  his 
"nearness  to  God."   He  recommends  persons  to  places 

^,j   ,..,..^-,  ^i  tiia  puoijjiOii  US  iiiiuir  pastor.     He 

recommends  Mra  Winslow's  snoozing  syrup  by  virtue 


CRIMK3   OF   PREACHKRa  59 

of  his  experience  as  a  "child  of  immortality"  (of 
course  he  never  takes  pay  for  such  services).  He  as- 
sumes to  introduce  himself  to  anyone  and  anywhere 
even  to  a  lady  stranger,  insisting  upon  taking  her  by 
the  hand  as  a  "messenger  from  Jesus,"  a  familiarity 
ishe  would  resent  on  the  part  of  an  honest  tiller  of  the 
801]  He  enters  our  homes  without  invitation  and 
while  a  stranger,  and  volunteers  advice  upon  all  earthly 
subjects  of  which  he  knows  but  little,  and  upon  all 
heavenly  subjects,  of  which  he  knows  nothing 

The  assumed  position  of  a  preacher  as  a  "spiritual 
adviser  peculiarly  places  him  in  a  position  to  commit 
crimes  against  morality,  chastity,  and  decency  The 
danger  of  "pastoral  visits,"  so  strikingly  exemplified 
in  the  Beecher.Tilton  scandal,  has  become  almost  im- 
minent.  During  the  middle  ages,  in  Switzerland  and 
other  countries,  a  new  priest  could  not  hear  the  pri- 
vate  confession  of  females  until  he  had  selected  and 
kept  one  or  more  mistresses ;  but  even  such  a  salutary 
provision  would  hardly  have  sufficed  to  keep  some  of 
the  gentlemen  of  our  list  within  bounds. 

The  lazy,  overfed  life  led  by  most 'of  our  clergy 
superinduces  lust,  and  the  chances  they  have  are 
shown  to  have  been  largely  improved  ;  over  400  cases 
of  beastly  lechery  out  of  917  cases  of  crime  exempli- 
fies  the  fact.  ^ 

•  '^.^LT'^  i  ^/'""^  '"^  °^'  S^"®'^^  population  is  3.1 
in  1,000,  including  the  clergy.  This  list  shows  29 
crimes  committed  by  each  1,000  "sky-pilots"  and 
these  only  so  far  as  we  have  collected  them  from  the 
printed  reports;  if  but  half  have  been  collected  th.re 
have  been  58  crimes  committed  by  each  1,000  preach- 


4 


60 


CRIMEA  OF  PREACHERB, 


lit,. 


7- 


era  in  the  last  fire  yean ;  if  but  one  crime  in  sixteen 
has  been  published,  there  have  been  928  crimes  com-, 
mitted  by  each  1,000  pr6achers  in  the  "intellectual 
belt "  of  these  United  States.  The  only  question  is, 
do  clergymen  conceal  tiieir  criminality  as  effectually 
as  do  other  criminals. 

These  data  are  taken  exclusively  from  accounts  pub- 
lished in  newspapers.  The  abbreviation  became  neces- 
sary on  account  of  the  multitude  of  priestly  villains. 
•*  Some  of  the  details  are  shocking.  We  have  preserved 
the  printed  report  and  can  furnish  the  same  to  in- 
quirers. 

The  ratio  of  criminals  in  American  population  is  2,7 
to  the  1,000,  including  the  clergy.  The  above  list 
shows  that  out  of  35,000  preachers  477  are  criminals, 
or  13.  S  to  the  1,000.  Making  the  same  allowances  as 
before,  for  want  of  data,  the  number  becomes  26.6  to 
the  1,000 ;  and  if  but  one  crime  out  of  sixteen  is  dis- 
covered in  this  amply  protected  and  shielded  class, 
thenout  of  every  1,000  "ministers  of  the  most  high"  . 
425  are  criminals,  as  against  176  to  the  1,000  in  all 
classes,  including  the  preachers,  measured  by  the  same 
rule  as  to  discovery,  etc. 

Now,,  although  we  know  that  there  are  many  plergy- 
men  'Srho  are  good  and  honest  men,  and  who  consci- 
entigusly  teach  the  mythology  of  Christianity  and  are 
eaniestly  strivifig  to  benefit  mankind,  yet  the  convic- 
tion is  forced  upon  us  that  as  a  class  they  are  the  most 
hypftcritical  and  criminal  class  of  men;  that  their 
knowledge  that  their  savior  is  a  fabled  myth,  com- 
mon to  religious  enthusiasts  in  all  ages  and  all  lands, 
auu.  »iiaB  »u=j  vuuuu  mcii-  iUj,  iiVlDgS  aOieiy  on  accouiil  V 


sixteoD 
es  com- 
illectual 
ition  is, 
sctually    * 

its  pub- 
e  neces- 
nllains.  •► 
eserved 
I  to  in-^  ♦ 

>n  ia  2,7 
>ve  list 
minals,  ^ 
nces  as 
26.6  to 

is  dis- 
I  class, 

high"  . 
)  in  all-  > 
e  same 

?lergy- 
sonsci- 
nd  are 
lonvic- 
s  moat 
their 
,  com- 
lands, 
Icouul  . 


CRIMES    or    PREACHERS. 


61 


of  the  ignorance  nod  superstition  of  their  dupes,  makes 
them  per  se  criminally  inclined. 
Christian,  how  do  you  like  this  showing  ?    '"'  Man  of 
-  God,"  wjiat  have  you  got  to  offer?    This  is  rather  a 
«new  departure,  ia  it  not?    What  are  you  going  to  dp 
about  it?    It  will  do  little  good  to  sig'  for  the  good 
old  days  when  Christianity  ruled  supreme,  when  you[ 
could  at  once  invoke  the  aid  of  the  axe,  rack,  the  stake, 
the-  fagot,  the  thumbscrew,  the  iron  bpot,  and  the 
tongues  of  f^  re.     The  ghost  of  the  murdered  past  will 
not  answer  yottr  call.     Thanks  to  the  advance  of  Free- 
thought  and  to  the  legislative  care  of  Washington, 
Jefferson,  Franklin,  Paine,  and  other  Infidel  compeers,' 
.there  is  a  bound  set  to  your  despotic  sway.     What  can 
you  do?     Of  course  you  can  beseech  an  all-merciful 
deity  to  bum  the  author  forever  hereafter ;  but  as  he 
Seems  willing  to  take  the  chances  of  the  hA-eafter, 
and  as  your  faith  in  that  divine  institution  called  hell 
has  of    late  been  fearfully  shaken— thanks  to  the 
humanizing  efforts  of  Infidels  which  has  in  a  measure' 
civilized  your  creed  and  stripped  your  God  of  half  of 
the  horrible  attributes  you  had  given  him— even  that 
sweetflolace  ia  hardly  commensurate  for  the  oecasion. 
T^en  what  can  you  do  ?     Why,,  it  is  terrible  to  know 
that  anyone  dares  hunt  up  and  classify  and  publish* 
to  the  world  the  crimes  committed  by  the  reverend 
"  follpwerft  oT  the  meek  and  lowly  Jesus  f "     It  h^s  al- 
w4ys  been  an  exclusive  right  belonging  to  the'priest- 
hood  to  charge  all  crime  upon  Infidels ;  to  assert  from 
every  '^coward's  castle  "  in  the  land  that  but  for  un- 
.„.,,...  .„  ._...^  ..^^^„_^„„  _j_^gj.  ^j.  -^^^  uioini  of  a  person 
who  they  claim  died  some  eighteen  hundred  and  forty^ 


62 


CRIMES    or    PREACHERS, 


;tv 


eight  years  ago  there  would  be  no  sin,  no  crime.  It  is  a 
rather  strange  experience  to  have  the  tables  tmrned, 
and  to  have  an  expose  that  shows  a  fearful  balance  of 
crime  against  those  who  so  earnestly  believe  and 
teach  the  all-potent  curative  and  preventive  proper- 
ties of  the  aforesaid  blood. 

Again  we  ask,  what  will  the  privileged  class  do 
about  it?  And,  being  a  Yankee,  allow  us  t  answer 
oar  own  question.  We  have  no  way  to  judge  of  the 
future  but  by  the  past.  In  the  past  these  brassy  gen- 
try, with  solemn-visaged  falseliood,  have  from  every 
coward's  castle  in  Christendom  answered  all  the  argu- 
ments, facts,  and  figures  adduced  by  skeptics  by  ma- 
ligning the  character  of  the  reasoner  or  mathemati> 
cian,  especially  if  dead.  "  Unworthy  to  blacken  the 
shoes  of  their  opponent,  they  blackened  his  charac- 
ter." All  this  being  more  congenial  to  the  taste  of  the 
ordinary  follower  of  the  meek  and  lowly  Jesus  than 
fair  investigation  and  candid  argument 

With  the  ghoulishness of  hyenas  they  have  dvg  into 
the  grave  of  Thomas  Paine,  and  covered  the  honored 
dust  of  the  noble  and  defenseless  dead  with  cesspool; 
filth,  calumny,  falsehood,  vituperation,  hatred,  and 
slander. 

"  In  the  arsenal  of  the  church,  which  once  bristled 
with  magazines  of  destruction,  there  remains  but  one 
weapon — slander."  Col.  Ingersoll  will  one  day  be 
served  as  was  Thomas  Paine,  for  uttering  such  a 
thought.  "  Once  a  donkey  kicked  a  lion.  The  lion 
wasc^eac?.' 

TViia    +.K»n    ia  ixrlia.t.  arill    Vk*  d'^DC       TTmTn    t^rrarxr  nil  J. 

pit  will  belch  a  stream  of  slander  to  hide  by  the  cry  of 


It  I 


CRIMES    OF    PREACHERS. 


68 


"Stop  thief!"  the  reverend  purloiner  of  female  virtue, 
the  ravisher  of  children,  the  marderer  of  wife  and 
children,  the  beater  of  helpless  women  and  babes,  and 
the  "meek  follower  of  Jesus,"  who  whipped  his  three- 
year-old  boj  to  death  ivv  not  correctly  saying  the 
•'Lord's  Prayer." 

Well,  after  all  this  ip  done  will  that  establish  the 
innocence  of  the  mui^ei  r  of  Viary  Stannard— of  the 
seducer  of  Mrs.  Tilton  ^Y:.l  that  prove  beyond  a 
reasonable  doubt  that  ministers  never  commit  crime? 
No!  but  the  "galled  jade  winces  "  jast  the  same, and 
be  whose  corns  are  trod  upon  is  apt  to  cry  out 

The  reason  for  this  expose  is  apparent.     For  ages 
all  crime  has  been  charged  to  Infidelity.     Once  it  was 
a  brave  man  who  dared  announce  disbelief  in  the 
myths  of  Christianity.     "  To  him  who  had  braved  the 
church  every  door  was  shut,  every  knife  was  open." 
Even  in  our  day  it  was  to  be  shunned  as  a  pest  and  to 
be  ostracized  from  society  to  announce  a  disbelief  in 
the  "  immaculate  conception."     From  every  pulpit  the 
skeptics  were  charged  with  all  the  crime  that  darkens 
the  face  of  civilization.     Eev.  E.  L.  Baylibj  -now,  un- 
fortunately for  him,  languishing  in  the  penitentiary  of 
Michigan  for  seduction  of  Brother  Phenix's  wife  and 
eloping  with  her,  deserting  his  wife  and   children— 
while  "evangelizing  '  in  the  Baptist  church  at  Waver, 
ly,  Iowa,  invited  all  skeptics  to  come  and  hear  his 
convincing  arguments  against  Infidelity  I   Many  came 
The  buffoon  took  for  his  text  "  Let  him  that  is  unholy 

be  unholy  still,  and  him  that  is  filthy  be  filthy  still  " 

__j J  -  .•     1      «    ,  ...  . -^         ' 

auu  puuiuu  a,  uraae  or  aouse  upon  iauies  and  gentle- 
men of  the  best  society.     He  said :  "  Let  them  alone ; 


64 


CRIMES    OF    PREACHERS. 


„! 


come  out  from  them.  From  skeptics  comes  all  the 
crime  that  darkens  the  face  of  civilization."  The 
skeptics  were  convinced  that  he  was  a  cowardly  slan- 
derer, and  arose  and  left,  leaving  him  empty  benches 
to  talk  to.  He  can  hardly  claim  that  the  short  time 
he  remained  so  contaminated  him  that  he  shortly 
afterward  had  to  expiate  it  in  state  prison. 

Allow  us,  then,  to  make  the  following  offer :  There 
are  of  Freethinkers  —  including  Atheists,  Infidels, 
Spiritualists,  etc.— about  seven  millions  in  the  United 
States ;  there  are  about  seventy  thousand  priests  and 
preachers.  Now,  we  make  the  following  offer :  We 
we  will  give  ten  dollars  apiece  for  crimes  committed 
by  any  of  these  classes  of  Freethinkers  within  the  last 
five  years,  and  will  take  tha  report  thereof  as  pub- 
lished in  the  newspapers ;  provided,  the  preachers 
will  give  us  one  dollar  apiece  for  the  same  evidence  of 
crimes  committed  by  reverends.  Thus  we  offer  ten 
dollars  for  one,  and  give  them  seven  millions  to  draw 
their  data  from  while  we  have  but  seventy  thousand. 

In  the  language  of  th.e  far  West,  **  Put  up  or  shutupr 

The  author  will  continue  to  publish  these  records 
from  year  to  year.  Will  friends  be  so  kind  as  to  clip 
from  papers  such  items,  together  with  name  and  date 
of  the  paper,  and  sena  them  to  us  for  insertion  ir  fut- 
ure editions  ? 

If  a  wrong  has  been  done  by  inserting  a  name  in 
this  list  vhich  should  have  been  omitted,  as  where 
some  paper  has  maliciously  published  a  falsehood 
against  t  y  one,  we  shall  be  only  too  glad  to  make 
rcpufatioD,  Our  oujact  ucing  to  uo  exact  justice  to  ali, 
without  fear  or    lalice. 


} 


RECAPITULATION    TO    SECOND   EDITION. 


The  following  shows  the  aggregate  Oi.  each  crime 
charged,  alphabetically  arranged : 


From 
lffT6 
to 

Prom 

CRIMES    CHARGED. 

1181 
to 

Totl 

, ________^________ 

1881. 

4 

1882. 

Abortion, 

3 

7 

Adultery, 

206 

86 

292 

Assault,  intent  to  murder, 

8 

8 

11 

"             "         do  great  harm, 

1 

1 

2 

"             "        commit  rape, 

1 

4 

5 

"       and  battery,                           i 

10 

10 

20 

Attempted  elopement  with  w<nif»n, 

1 

1 

Attempt  to  seduce  women. 

8 

8 

Abusive  language, 

2 

2 

Attempted  bigamy, 

6 

3 

8 

Attempted  suicide, 

4 

Arson,  burning  houses,                        i 

4 

2 

6 

Bastardy, 

28 

7 

FO 

Beating  wife, 

10 

8 

18 

Beating  women, 

; 

2 

Bigamy,                                         ^       j 

•28 

8 

86 

Breach  of  promise  of  marriage,            • 

2 

1 

8 

Buggery, 

8 

8 

Breach  of  hospitality. 

6 

5 

Breach  of  trust,                                     ( 

2 

2 

Compounding  felony, 

8 

8 

Compelling  to  marry, 

1 

1 

Cruelty  to  animals,                             ' 

i 

1 

Cheating, 

25 

13 

38 

=i 


Pi  I 

■i  ■ 


66 


CRIMES  OF  PREACHERS. 


CRIMES  CHARGED. 


Deserting  wife  and  children, 

Dishonesty, 

Deceit, 

Debauchery, 

Drowning  his  son, 

Died  in  a  brothel, 

Drunk^nneaB, 

Duelling,  , 

Elopement  with  women, 

Embezzlement, 

Escape  from  prison, 

False  personation, 

Falsehood, 

Fighting, 

Forgery, 

Fornication, 

Fraudulent  divorce. 

Fraudulent  bankruptcy, 

Getting  child  drunk. 

Gambling, 

Gross  fraud, 

Gross  immorality, 

His  tenets  were  those  of  the  last  fe 
male  he  met. 

Horse  racing. 

Illicit  distilling. 

Illegal  marrying, 

Immoral  conduct, 

Improper  conduct, 

Immoralities, 

Indecent  familiarities  with  women, 

Insulting  personalities, 

Inhuman  cruelty  to  wife  and,  children, 

Immoral  assault  on  women  and  girls, 

Insulting  ladies, 


From 

1876 

to 

1881. 


28 
i 
1 
2 

1 

29 

1 

17 
26 
2 
7 
3 
•  7 
22 
7 
1 
1 
1 
2 
4 
8 

1 
1 
2 
2 

1 

1 

2 

2 
17 
29! 


From 
1881 
to 

1883. 


18 
•4 
5 


23 

8 

13 

1 

2 


Tot'i 


6 

8 


1 
1 

10 
1 

9 

19 


2HI     22 


44 
6 
6 
2 
1 
1 

52 
1 

25 

39 
3 
9 


17     20 


13 
30 
7 
1 
I 
1 
3 
6 
5 

1 
1 
2 
3 
6 
1 

11 
3 
2 

26 

48 

4:8 


CRIMES    or    PRBACHEPS, 


67 


CRIMES  CHARGED. 


44 
6 

6 
2 
1 
1 
62 
1 
26 
39 
3 
9 
20 
13 
30 
7 
1 
I 
1 
3 
6 
5 


Incest, 

Kissing  servant  girl  for  spiriiaal  wel- 
fare, 
Keeping  gambling-houae, 
Lascivious  conduct, 
Libel, 
Larceny, 
Literary  piracy, 
LewdnesB, 
Lecijery, 
Lying, 

Malicious  mischief, 
Malicious  trespass, 
Miscegenation  with  negro  woman. 
Murder,  in  general,    8, " 

"     of  wife,       4, 

"     of  his  child,  2, 
Manslaughter, 
Nuisance, 

Obscene  literature- -sending  through 
mail, 

Obtaining  money  under  false  pretense 
Perjury,  ' 

Poisoning  starving  children, 
Profanity, 
Quarreling, 
Robbery, 

Rape — in  general,  5, 

"     on  girls  under  15  years,  6, 

"        "       12yeaifl,  7, 
Riot, 

Robbing  mails. 

Recklessness, 

Resigned  under  charges, 

Swindling, 


From 

1876 

to 

1881. 


8 

2 

1 

1 

31 
1 
1 
1 

12 
1 
1 
1 

14 


From 

1881 

to 

1382. 


Tot'l 


12 


21 

4 


30 


1/ 

If 


1 

52 
S 
1 
1 
42 
1 
1 
2 

19 


1 

a 

4 

10 

13 

23 

7 

7 

1 

1 

3 

2 

5 

7 

7 

14 

2 

3 

6 

18 

1 

1 

20 

4 

2 

6 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

2 

24 

20 

44 

68 


CRIMES  or   PREACHERS. 


CRIME   CHARGED. 


91,1 


Seduction — in  general, 

"         girls  under  16  years,  12 
Slaveholding  missionary, 
Starving  children, 
Subornation  of  perjury, 
Suicide, 
Slander, 
Sodomy, 

Scandalous  conduct. 
Too  sus'^^jrtible. 
Too  free  with  the  sisters, 
Unchaste  conduct, 
Unministerial  conduct. 
Unchristian  conduct, 
Unbecoming  conduct, 
Unnamed  crime. 
Unjust  confinetoont  of  wife  in  insane 

asylum, 
Ye  y  uncottrteous  conduct, 
Vul^rity, 

"Vile  and  indecent  language. 
Wanton  conduct. 
Whipped    his  three-year-old  boy  to 

death  for  not  correctly  saying  the 

Lord's  prayer, 

Total  crime  charged, 

Agaihst  women  in  a  sexaal  way 
Against  women  in  other  ways. 

Total  crimes  against  women, 


From  ;  From 
1876        188i 

1^1    1882 


■I- 


108 

1 
2 
1 

11 
7 
4 
1 
1 
1 
1 
'2 
11 
1 
3 

1 
1 
2 
1 


58 

2! 


Tot 


163 

1 

2 

1 

14 

14 

6 

1 

1 

1 

1 

2 

11 

1 

4 

11 
1 

2 
1 


917  601 


1418 


456 
81 

687 


220 
41 


261 


676 
122 


r 


798 


m 


CRIMES   OF   PREACHER. 


69 


Tbe  first  edition  places  the  Methodist  divines  at  the 
top  of  the  criminal  calendar.  They  still  hold  that 
bad  pre-euiinence.  During  the  last  year  159  of  the 
202  preachers  charged  with  crime  have  been  assigned 
tu  their  respective  churches:  thus,  Methodists,  64: 
Baptists,  82;  Catholics,  20;  Episcopalians,  13;  Con- 
gregationalists,  10 ;  Lutherans,  10 ;  Presbyterians,  9 ; 
Campbellites,  2  ;  United  Brethren,  2 ;  Hebrews,  2 ; 
Adventists,  1 ;  Universalists,  1.  So  if  the  35,000  holy 
men  have  committed  73,000  sexual  crimes  during  the 
last  year,  the  Methodist  preachers  have  assisted  in 
24,333  cases,  the  Baptists  in  12,000,  the  Catholics  in 
9,000,  the  Episcopalians  in  7,000,  the  Congregational- 
ists  in  4,500,  the  Lutherans  in  4,500,  the  Presbyterians 
in  4,000,  the  Campbellites  1,000,  the  United  Brethren 
in  1,000,  the  Hebrews  in  1,000,  the  Adventists  in  500, 
the  Universalists  in  500. 

Again  must  we  ask.  Are  men  nearer  pure  the  fai^ 
ther  they  get  from  orthodoxy,  and  vice  versa  f 

Then  220  of  these  crimes  charged  have  been  against 
the  morality,  chastity,  and  decency  of  women !  H&a 
the  author  been  able  to  obtain  published  accounts  ul 
half  of  those  deeds  of  the  dark  ?  Have  the  reverend 
adulterers,  seducers,  and  ravishers  been  caught  and 
published  in  one  case  out  of  sixteen  of  that  carefully 
covered  crime?  If  not,  and  the  lecherous  men  of 
God  have  committed  but  one  offense  each,  tL  i  these 
35,000  vicegerents  of  hearen  have  committed  twenty 
sexual  sins  per  day  during  the  last  year !  Did  each 
repeat  his  crime  ten  times,  then  the  female  dupes  of 
the  "  Oily  gaaimons  "  have  6u3ered  froni  their  beastly 
lusts  to  the  amount  of  two  hundred  instances  per  day. 


IS 

if 


41 


70 


OBIMES    OF    PREAOHSRS. 


Computing  at  the  same  ratio  which  statisticians  v^e- 
with  other  classes  of  cnrnmals,  tlu.._e  35,000  messen- 
gers  of  peace  are  guilty  ol  73,000  .exnal  crimes  everv 
Tear,  two  for  each  one  of  their  number  er  ^ry  .lay   in- 
eluding  SunJaj.      And  wiiy  not?     Have  they  le.s 
opporlnnitj  than  l^^borers,  mechanics,  lawyers,  .^octors 
nnnem,  mr/ner.,  traders,  merchants,  sailors,  or  other 
ha%  s<.aB  of  rMi  ?     Stireiy  not.     Every  opportunity 
^3  thrown  n:  their  way.     T^Tomen  will  admit    perfect 
atra^gers  into  .lieir  houses,  into  their  society,  into  their 
cov,ndence,,  if  they  but  prefix  the  pompous  title    Rev- 
erend    to  their  namea     Few  care  to  even  i  ..nice  a 
Jaborer,  sailor,  farmer,  mechanic,  or  miner.   Yet  while 
computing  the  criminal  statistics  the  compiler  includes 
as  weJ !  the  noble  sons  of  toil  as  the  priesthood.     Who 
does  not  know  that  if  so  much  sexual  crime  is  com- 
mitted the  smooth-tongued  wolf  in  a  lamb's  pelt  has 
better  opportunities  than  the  busy  man  of  useful  life 
even  ,f  nothing  be  allowed   for  the  indolent  lives' 
highly-seasoned  food,  and  depraved  appetites  of  these 
Iambs  of  God? 

And  now,  after  a  year  spent  in  waiting,  hoping  that 
the  previous  publication  might  deter  the  elect  of  God 
from  such  exhibitions  of  depravity,  we  come  again  to 
the  fore  with  a  new  list  of  202  criminal  preachers  in 
one  year,  taken,  as  before,  from  the  northern  half  of 
the  United  States  and  Canada.     Four  hundred  a  -d 
forty-seven  in  five  years  was  a  fearful  list,  unr       ^. 
dented  in  the  annals  of  crime !     That  made  ov  -,  ;. 
to  the  year  I     Bu-^  )  .re  comes  202  in  one  .  . v^     ,qq 
to  the  month!  4        h  week!  mor^  than  '^-   .  av^rv 
other  day!    Sundays  included!    Just  thint:        000 


i»       « 


CRIMES    OF    PREACHERS. 


71 


educated  men,   well  versed  in  our  oivil  and  moral 
code,  claiming  secular  holiness,  and  demanding  special 
privileges  because  of  their  good  works ;  committing 
gross  aad  horrid  crimes  every  other  day,  even  if  not 
one  of  them  repeats  his  crime — does  this  so  publicly 
Uhut  it  is  published  in  the  papers.     How  much  done 
so  darkly  no  one  ever  knows  of  it  unless  it  be  perhaps 
a  suffering  victim.     Do  they,  like  the  rest  of  crim- 
inals, hide  fifteen  out  of  sixteen  crimes?    If  so.  these 
35,000  holy  men  commit  10  crimes  each  day !     Has 
the  author  yet  failed  to  get  more  than  half  of  the  pub- 
lished accounts  ?  then  these  "  sky-pilots  "  commit  over 
20  crimes  every  day,  including  Sundays,  even  if  each 
commits  but  one  crime  in  all  his  life !     But  these  202 
priests  and  preachers  are  charged  with  an  aggregate  of 
500  crimes  in  the  last  year.     Four  crimes  each  three 
days,  so  far  as  published  I  Did  the  author  z'-q  but  half, 
then  they  have  been  published  as  having  committed 
8  crimes  every  three  days !     Did  they  hide  15  crimes 
for  every  one  published,  then  they  have  committed 
128  crimes  each  three  days  !     Have  the  clergy  in  the 
northern   half  of  the  United  States  committed  42 
heinous  crimes  every  day  during  the  last  year  ? 


;  . 


CRIMES  OF  PREACHERS. 

OOHICBNTS  OF  THK   PBBSS,  KTO. 

The  oompUatlon,  aeemlngiy  accurate  enough,  Is  not  one  which  a 
healthy  mind  would  care  to  spend  Ume  e^mlnlng.  The  number  of 
preachers  Involved  Is  some  «0,  and  the  character  of  the  trespass  Is  usu- 
i^y  Bexual.    The  black  sheep  are  something  too  prevalont.-oajc<wo 

IT  is  iBdeed  a  formidable  array  oi  the  crimes  of  preachers  for  the  short 
time  of  Ave  years.— TVa^A  Seeker,  July  28, 1881. 

Wb  recommend  a  book  compUed  by  M.  E.  Billings,  of  Waverly,  Iowa, 
givtagthe  name,  place,  ohtiroh.  and  crime  charged  against/our  hundred 
Sfy'^lssT'"  ^"**^""  *"  ""^  ****  *^*  y®*™'  -  ^«"*<«  (^<^«)  democrat, 

Kow  what  does  Mr.  Billings's  lltUe  book  prove  ?  I  answer  just  this  : 
That  the  reverend  gentlemen  In  the  United  3tate8  are  the  most  criminal 
fletof  men  m  the  country  according  to  their  numbers,  and  the  least  ex- 
cuse for  committtag  crime  of  any  class  of  people  on  earth.-J.  D.  Seelv  in 
Stynumr  Timet,  ffuly  80, 1881. 

I  havj:  jast  flnishetf  reading  the  "  Crimes  of  Preachers,"  by  M,  E.  Bil- 
lings, and  must  say  I  am  astonished  at,  the  magnitude  of  the  sins  wrought 

o'h   T/*^""*"-    •    •    •    B°ythl8boofc,mytriend8,and  send  ii;  far 
and  wide.-J^/mino  Drake  Slenker  in  Truth  Suker,  July  20, 1881. 

WAvicBi.ys  "chaste"  and  "honest"  attorney  has  done  me  the 
honor(?)of  sending  me  the  result  of  his  five  yean,' scavengering.  In 
whlchheparadeswhat  he  calls  the  crimes  of  preachers.  .  .  .  What 
are  sensational  newspaper  "  rumors  "  and  "  reports,"  anyway  ^-Rev  T, 
J.  Keith,  D.  2>.,  in  Waverlv  Septidliean,  July  38, 1881. 

SiMULTANKouBLT  With  the  stlT  oauged  by  the  Atwater  case  comes  this 
lltUe  book  of  thirty.f our  pages,  mosUy  taken  up  with  a  catalogue  of  min- 
istersorpreanhei-gwho  have  been  exposed  and  deposed  daring  five 
years.  The  pamphlet  referred  to  Is  certainly  suggestive.  Either 
preachers  are  worse  than  other  men,  or  they  are  less  shrewd  in  avoiding 
Aeteotloa.—  Worthington  (Mnu  )  Advance,  Aug.  18, 1881. 

Thb"  Grimes  of  Preachers "  is  a  oarefuUy  compiled  account  of  the 
crimes  of  preachers  of  all  denominations.  .  .  .  It  is  a  valuable  work, 
and  we  advise  everybody  to  send  twenty-five  cents  and  get  one.  It  Is 
the  only  record  of  the  kind  In  existence.— Xi*«rai  Free  Prett,  Sept.  1, 1881 

CoMPiLKD  wilh  a  precision  amply  adequate  for  purposes  of  verlfloJ 
Uon  or  otherwise,  should  any  person  feel  inclined  to  investlsa'e.    The 


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L  OhJl^lii  of  OhrlBtlanlty.  4.  The  Grand  Plan  of  Salration 
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2  ThrOo^i^l%JJ-H?''f^^  Admissions  against  th»  Scriptures. 
w.^,.r.  **•*  *^'^*°J[  ^  St.  Thomas,  so.  Truth  the  Most  VpJua- 
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book  wlU  hav  an  Influence.  If  the  policy  o»  oontemptuouB  silence  bas 
served  In  the  place  of  argument  In  the  past,  it  will  not  do  always  Stu- 
tistlos  are  stubborn  thlngs.-rAe  Atnerican  CUiztn  (Ttx'M),  Aug.,  1881. 

Wk  have  received  from  the  publisher,  M  K  Billings,  of  Waverly,  Iowa 
a  copy  of  his  book,"  Crimes  of  Preachers."  which  shows  that  a  irreat 
number  of  those  who  ahould  have  been  the  suit  of  the  earth  are  worse 
than  ravening  wolves.-^*  Ponchatmla  (La )  OaztU*,  Oct.  12,  issi. 

THK  "Crimes  of  Preachers "  is  the  UUe  of  a  pamphlet  edited  and 
printed,i»ro  b<mo  publico,  by  M.  E.  Billings,  Waverly,  Iowa  The 

Methodists  seem  to  be  the  wickedest,  while  the  UnlversailBts  are  least 
given  to  ways  that  are  dark.-  Th«  Agnottie ;  Texcu),  Oct.,  1881. 

Wb  have  received  from  tLo  author  a  copy  of  his  book, "  Crimes  of 
Preachers,"  which  Shows  a  great  number  of  the  preachers  are  worse 
than  ravening  ynoivea.— Southland  {La  ),Oct  29,  I88I. 

Wk  .  av  the  statistics  before  us  of  a  most  remarkable  compilation,  one 
which  is  Indisputable,  which  gives  the  crimes  committed  byminmters 
Bemember.  It  gives  only  those  which  became  so  notorious  as  to  be 
published  In  newspapers.— iVo»)co/t/<>r»ni«/  (Iowa),  Nov,  3. 1881 

THK  religious  press  has  become  aware  of  this  terrible  record,  and  to 
somewhat  extenuate  or  break  the  force  of  the  dama^g  blow  presenU 
the  plea  that  the  pastor,  In  the  discharge  of  bis  duUes,  Is  thrown  into  the 
society  of  ladles,  and  more  subject  to  temptation  than  any  otbor  class 

fZt'^^r.'  "r~''''  •  •  •  W« --Vise  a  careful  Semt, 
of  this  subject,  and  as  an  aid  would  advise  all  to  send  twenty-flve  cents 
to  M  E.  Billings,  Waverly,  Iowa,  and  procure  a  copy  of  the  pamphlet  - 
fi59i    fual  OffeHng  (Iowa),  Oct.  29. 1881.  '"pu'et. 

.  our  part  we  cannot  understand  how  a  parson  need  ever  be  oaueht 
He  can  always  make  pastoral  ca;is  without  the  object  of  his  visits  belnir 
QUMtloued:  and  yet  hero  is  the  melancholy  fact  that  in  a  few  of  the 
states  four  hundred  and  forty-seven  parsons  were  charged  In  the  papera 
with  having  committed  nine  hundred  and  seventeen  crimes,  Sy 
adulteries,  seductions,  and  v>iT?ea.-Mauflower  (Halifax),  Jan.  7, 18P2 

Hb  says  i,e  did  not  get  all.  and  we  know  of  several  not  In  ...o  book  -f  ,o 
figured  largely  In  the  California  papers,  it  is  a  valuable  ad  •  !,.<  to 
Freethought  llteratme.-iiflrA^ /or  All  (San  Frandtco),  Dec.  15,  i  a. 

THK  CHIMES  o»PRBAOHEK8~E3 1st  eine  nlcht  schr  urafangreische 
abervlelsa^cende  Elugschrift  welcheda  M.  E.  Billings,  Waverly  Iowa' 
Fro  bono  pjUco  veroffenUicht  hat.  Man  solte  es  kamm  fur  mogiTch 
haiieu  \-I^eid«nker  (miwaukte),  March  26  1882.  mogacn 

THE  list,  which  seems  to  be  accurate,  is  not  of  that  kind  which  one 
takes  pleasure  In  readhig.-/>«  e«oi»  (/« )  /y^,  j^^e  24, 1882 

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ll8hed,and  will  contain  two  or  three  hundred  additional  mlnlHtfZ 
crimes.    Every  Freethinker  should  order  a  copy.    Ool.  Bi«l8oneo^ 

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